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Captured by the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography

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IMAGINE THE ADVANTAGE YOU’D HAVE IF ONE OF THE WORLD’S TOP WEDDING SHOOTERS SHARED HIS SECRETS WITH YOU World-renowned wedding photographer, and one of the most widely acclaimed instructors in the industry today, David Ziser brings his no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point teaching style to a book that totally rewrites the rules for how wedding photography is taught. This groundbreaking new book is the first of its kind to focus on the exact areas that wedding photographers have been begging a top pro like David to cover, including how to create professional quality light and beautiful images in every situation, how to compose wedding images that sell, and how to create amazing images in the limited time and at the fast pace of a wedding. But David doesn’t just stop there. He covers every aspect of what today’s brides and wedding couples want from a wedding photographer, including poses that work every time and can’t-miss lighting setups you can use again and again, and everything is laid out in a brilliant step-by-step method that makes learning these techniques so easy, you’ll be able to pull off these same looks yourself (without spending thousands on expensive equipment). Plus, the book is packed with David’s tricks of the trade that he’s picked up in a career shooting all over the world. LEARN HOW THE PROS REALLY DO IT Each year David trains thousands of photographers on how to shoot weddings like a pro. He knows the problems and challenges today’s wedding photographers face, and that’s exactly what he covers in this book. You’ll learn everything on the list here and much more: Professional posing and composition tipsSimple on- location lighting setups that are specially designed for the wedding photographerHow to get gorgeous images using a minimal amount of time and equipmentCreative lighting techniques that anyone can use to create dramatic wedding portraits that will set you apartDavid’s own camera settings and lens selections (which lenses to use when, and why), and how to get the best results with your existing gearHow pros use on- and off-camera f lash, and a host of tricks of the trade that will make you more profitable and have you delivering the type of wedding shots you’ve always dreamed of!Plus, the book includes the complete cover-to-cover layout from one of David’s wedding album designs to help spark your creative juices and give you ideas to take your own layouts to the next level. The wedding photography industry has been waiting for a landmark book that would become “the book” that finally changes everything, and that’s exactly what you’ll be getting with the purchase of this book. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Riders


Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 3, 2010


Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 312 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321646878


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 73


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.69 x 9 inches


Part of series ‏ : ‎ Voices That Matter


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    • Not just for wedding photographers
I bought this book to learn more about photographing people, event photography and lastly (by a good margin), wedding photography. The book spends most of its time discussing lighting, which was a major reason that I bought it, as well as composition, posing, and many other practical aspects of photography. You do not need to be interested in shooting weddings (which are where all the example images in the book are from) to find much of value here - as I inferred before, I have little expectation of becoming a wedding photographer. I gave this book five stars and IMHO it fully deserves it. It is well illustrated and has easy to understand text which explains concepts well and coordinates well with the illustrations. I highly recommend this book for newbie or intermediate wedding photographers as well as those who shoot portraits and/or events. Now that I've given this book a well deserved five-star recommendation I will nitpick a little; On page 19 the author discusses histograms and while the points that the author makes about histograms are generally correct, I don't think he explains them well. When an image is under-exposed the histogram may be "shifted" to the left but it will not necessarily "hit the x-axis" except possibly on the right hand side of the histogram since few pixels in the image are probably bright. He says that the histogram "will go to zero (hit the x-axis) before it hits the right-hand y-axis" - awkward and not necessarily correct. I think there might be a less awkward way of saying this (how about; In an underexposed image most pixels tend to be not as bright as they should have been and therefore the histogram will appear to shift leftward with the histogram showing few if any pixels registering as having the brightest values - okay, I'm not the greatest wordsmith). Fortunately the author has good illustrations and images of histograms here. The book says that it was "Produced by Kelbymedia Group Inc". I've noticed that there are generally two types of instructional photographic technique books. One type explains concepts in running texts and hopefully has appropriate images and captions to go with the running text to give good examples of what is being explained. The other major style is to organize all the text into a step one to X cookbook style. Hopefully there there are also ample images and captions to help explain these steps. The author has some explanatory running text but seems to force too much text into the cookbook style. This style seems typical of Scott Kelby produced materials and while this style can be quite effective I got the impression that too much of the text in this book was forced into that organization (and that it did not always benefit from that). The author praises the high ISO performance of modern DSLR cameras on, what feels like, practically every page. I think most people will get the point if it is mentioned no more than ten times. :-) Lastly, and this may be my pet peeve, the author uses the term "nodal point" on pages 136-137 to refer to where two lines intersect (as in the compositional technique known as the "rule of thirds"). Considering that the term nodal point has a number of very specific meanings in photography I would suggest simply saying something like "where two lines intersect" or "intersection #4 in figure #3" and not use a term that is generally used to refer to something else (i.e. in lens design). All in all, even with my few nitpicks, I highly recommend this book to those interested in portrait, event and/or wedding photography. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2011 by Michael Brochstein
    • Excellent prep for your first wedding assignment!
Having done three weddings as a second photographer, I got my first solo assignment and wanted to do a first rate job. Looking for a guide to help me prepare, this book looked like the one I needed to do it right. What I learned from this book enabled me to focus on the essentials for the big day from what lenses were most important to what lighting equipment and how to use it for maximum effect. The basic challenges I faced were a large wedding party (seven each maids and men), large families and special requests for family portraits, a very large attendance, and a less than glamourous space in which to photograph it all. And of course, a very lengthy and hectic schedule, running from before 8:00 am until almost 11:00 that night. Although I had the fast glass, David encouraged me to be more practical and use my F4 lenses with image stabilization. Next, he encouraged me to use more power than on camera strobes would provide and to rely upon off camera, bare bulb, battery powered flash heads (the one I used was very similar to the Quantum TD5R David uses) shooting through an umbrella. I also used a large parabolic white shoot through for the group photos. In all, David's careful tutoring on what angles to shoot, how to master and rely upon manual mode camera settings and lighting power enabled me to achieve a very successful shoot, pleasing not only the bride, but both mother and mother in law! I don't suppose you can ask for more. If you are prepared to go beyond the basic equipment list and camera settings writeup, David Ziser has a whole lot to offer here on establishing a winning strategy for your wedding assignment. He taught me the fundamentals I needed to give me confidence and also enabled me to go beyond the lesson and experiment on my own. A serious study of this book will let you put to work much of the skills that David acquired over many years of experience. I recommend this book as one that you will look at many times. My lessons learned were invaluable and I still marvel at the results. Its chock full of tips and expert advice on how to plan and shoot your next wedding. My favorite points were what lenses to use for best effects, what lighting to use and how to use it, such as capturing the wedding dress and bridesmaid's gowns, and how to shoot the glamor and fashion formals, including how to get some texture into very dark menswear. For the price of this book, I easily saved a substantial amount over what workshops and travel might have cost to gain this knowledge. My hat is off to David for a wonderful report of his best tips and techniques. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2014 by Hawkeye

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